The trouble with Patrick Brown: “People want to be governed by a person, not an android”

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

I don't know about you, but I think Patrick Brown's inability to get quoted by the media is becoming a major problem.

Kathleen Wynne rolls out a botchamania of a climate plan after her ministers leak drafts in efforts to undercut one another....and Patrick Brown gets ignored.

Her immigration minister acts as an unofficial mouthpiece for the Chinese government after one of their officials humiliates a Canadian journalist... and Patrick Brown gets ignored.

In Alberta, my old intern comrade Derek Fildebrandt does the job P-Bizzle should be doing in opposing Kathleen Wynne, and is summarily kicked out of caucus only to be returned the following week... and Patrick Brown gets ignored.

Patrick Brown gets ignored because everybody knows that his first and only instinct is to do and say whatever Bay Street tells him to say and do.

And even though the journalists covering provincial politics are decidedly in the tank for the Liberals, they are not quite so stupid as to waste time quoting Patrick Brown when they could go straight to the source if they were so inclined.  (more...)

The trouble with Patrick Brown: “People want to be governed by a person, not an android”

Even the cheap seats are begining to notice:

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But then, we knew that he left his gonads behind in the boardroom:

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